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Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

 events included in the Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, eight diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, from 20 to 28 August , comprising a total of 125 divers from 30 nations.-Men:-Women:-Medal table:-Participating nations:Here are listed the nations that...

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The competition was split into three phases:

Preliminary round: 23 August — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive, a twisting dive and a sixth free-choice dive from one of these groups. There were no limitations in degree of difficulty. The 18 divers with the highest total score advanced to the semi-final.
Semi-final: 24 August — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive and a twisting dive. The overall difficulty degree was limited to 9.5. The 12 divers with the highest combined score from the semi-final and preliminary dives advanced to the final.
Final: 24 August — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive, a twisting dive and a sixth free-choice dive from one of these groups. There were no limitations in difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the final and semi-final dives.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Semifinal				Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
		495.45	2	256.17	2	751.62	2	531.21	1	787.38
		517.59	1	254.73	3	772.32	1	501.24	3	755.97
		450.06	6	256.38	1	706.44	4	496.89	4	753.27
4		444.96	7	240.42	5	685.38	7	510.30	2	750.72
5		434.70	8	232.02	7	666.72	8	472.23	5	704.25
6		452.76	5	239.91	6	692.67	6	461.55	7	701.46
7		489.75	3	228.09	10	717.84	3	469.20	6	697.29
8		456.15	4	245.64	4	701.79	5	444.36	8	690.00
9		432.45	9	230.28	8	662.73	9	432.69	9	662.97
10		408.75	15	221.85	11	630.60	12	420.84	10	642.69
11		419.16	11	219.57	12	638.73	11	410.07	11	629.64
12		429.09	10	228.60	9	657.69	10	391.74	12	620.34
13		418.32	12	210.90	15	629.22	13
14		414.69	13	209.91	16	624.60	14
15		401.52	16	215.61	14	617.13	15
16		397.71	17	217.05	13	614.76	16
17		410.97	14	194.82	18	605.79	17
18		396.90	18	202.98	17	599.88	18
19		385.80	19
20		384.63	20
21		382.56	21
22		380.07	22
23		378.93	23
24		378.72	24
25		377.61	25
26		377.19	26
27		371.85	27
28		363.75	28
29		359.22	29
30		357.09	30
31		344.40	31
32		225.87	32